Category: !Reviews

As mentioned in the previous post, I received a copy of The Nowhere Inn which is basically a mockumentary following St. Vincent on Tour.  It’s certainly interesting, and worth a watch especially if enjoy watching her in action so to speak.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2022/04/25/the-nowhere-inn-blu-ray/

Here is the other title I reviewed from last week.    I plan to review a title called Nowhere Inn when I get it in later this week as I’m a pretty big fan of St. Vincent’s work.  I should have it posted by Monday, the 25th.  I’m not sure if it will be on my site or just a link to Upcomingdiscs.com like usual.  (Since it’s an unsolicited title, I’ll probably have to check)

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2022/04/11/last-looks-blu-ray/

Well, I am reviewing again for Upcomingdiscs, so please see my recent review.  I have one more that will be posted next week as well.  There is a chance from this review here that I will be reviewing more Kino titles in the future.  Fingers crossed.  Have a great weekend.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2022/04/04/armageddon-armaguedon-blu-ray/

I did the DVD review for this about 10 years ago so I was excited to get this one in blu-ray (especially considering I no longer owned the dvd copy). Hope you enjoy the review.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/11/01/superman-the-complete-animated-series-blu-ray/

Rating – 3 1/2 stars out of 5

In 2010, Prince got together with Tal Wilkenfeld, Chris Coleman along with NPG singers, Liv Warfield, Shelby Johnson and Elisa Fiorillo (and others) to record an album.  Eventually they produced twelve songs which spoke about sensitive topics such as racism, politics, exploitation and disinformation.  Then it was mysteriously shelved for over a decade.  Some say that it was due to the fact that they couldn’t go out on the road with the same group that created the album or perhaps Prince himself just wasn’t done tweaking it.  But in the vault it went until this year when it was released by the Prince Estate.

One always wonders when an posthumous album is released, is it any darn good?  After all, it wasn’t being handled by Prince directly for the very last bit, it’s a production crew.  Even if they understand the artist (which obviously they do), there is a still a hanging of doubt over any record like this.  The short answer, it is good but in my mind there are some editing/mixing that could have made this tighter.  Also, it really detracts when the title song is arguably the worst song on the album.  Let’s proceed.

Continue reading “Prince – Welcome 2 America CD Review” →

I felt pretty darn good after Mothman Prophecies and decided to jump on another recent release in the Disney Movie Club exclusive, the Black Cauldron.  Enjoy.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/06/01/the-black-cauldron-blu-ray/

Yes, I’m still alive, just going through a down period where I am not having a lot of inspiration.  I have even slacked on my book reviews (I am reading and rating but not writing the reviews I was).  But I jumped back into it with a couple of reviews including this one on the Imprint Release, The Mothman Prophecies.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/05/28/the-mothman-prophecies-blu-ray/

Back to anime reviews I go.  This one went quickly, but eighty two minute movies kinda do that.  It was also something of a let down considering the pedigree.  Enjoy.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/03/29/earwig-and-the-witch-blu-ray/

Road films are something of a passion when it comes to movies for me. It could be a movie on a ten-lane highway guaranteed to have multiple car crashes, a two-lane cross country expedition, or a one-lane dirt road going into darkness where the passengers might never return. Nothing gets me going more than films like The Hitcher, Road Games, Two-Lane Blacktop, or The Duel.  It is the idea of not knowing exactly where the next turn is going to take you or what lies beyond the next hill.  Characters, environments, situations all can change once you get to the next town or cross another state line.  Today’s road film is the 1997 thriller, Breakdown, with Kurt Russell and J.T. Walsh, where we explore what a man must do in order to find his missing wife.  As one might guess, it is one of my favorites, as it delivers one nail-biting scene after another.  Let’s take a look.

The original copy of this review can be found at:

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2021/03/14/breakdown-blu-ray/

Continue reading “Breakdown (Import) (Blu-Ray) Review” →

Africa Screams is a movie near and dear to my heart.  Hope you enjoy my review of the blu-ray restoration.

https://upcomingdiscs.com/2020/07/21/africa-screams-blu-ray/